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HAHOUG LEKOLNOA (The film class-La classe de cinéma)

Titre Original HAHOUG LEKOLNOA
Titre traduit The film class-La classe de cinéma
Réalisateur ROSENWAKS
Uri
Distribution Ruth Diskin Films Ltd
Production Rosenwaks Uri et Majid Alkamalat
Année 2006
Format DVD
Durée 53'
Langue Arab, Heb, Ang. st Ang
Musique
Distinction The Art of Cinema Award – The Israeli Science, Culture and Sports Ministry, 2007 * Special Commendation Mention by SIGNIS – Zanzibar International Film Festival, Africa, 2007 * Special Mention by UNESCO Jury Breaking the Chains – Zanzibar
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Résumé Uri Rosenwaks est arrivé à Rahat, un village dans le désert du Negev, avec le projet d' enseigner à un groupe de femmes noires bédouines, la réalisation cinématographique. L' histoire des bédouins noirs est peu connue. C'est ainsi que chemin faisant, Uri et les femmes bédouines inscrites dans sa classe, découvrent que cette population est arrivée au moyen-orient, comme esclaves. Séquestrés en Afrique par des marchands d’esclaves arabes, ils ont été vendus à Zanzibar, et transférés en Arabie Saoudite et en Egypte. Il y a 50 ans, seulement, que les Bédouins noirs ont été libérés de l'esclavage. Lorsqu'il entreprit de travailler avec ce groupe de femmes bédouines, elles n'avaient jamais mentionné le problème de l'asservissement des bédouins noirs par les blancs. Uri leur suggère de faire un film sur sur l'histoire des bédouins noirs. Soudain, un modeste cours sur la pratique du cinéma devenait le révélateur d'un terrible tabou. Exterior of "A Step Forward" in Rahat Nothing is ever black and white, especially when it comes to people. Take, for example, the situation with Israel's Bedouin population, particularly in the south of the country, in the Negev Desert. There, some 180,000 Bedouin reside -- all citizens of Israel, but some black, and some white. The so-called white Bedouin are often dark-skinned, in typical Middle Eastern fashion, like many Sephardic Jews. The black Bedouin are actually former Africans, who were kidnapped by Arab slave traders; auctioned off in Zanzibar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt; and eventually brought through the Middle East -- and into the Negev. With the establishment of the State of Israel, they were freed, and later settled, for the most part, with many of the white Bedouin in desert towns and villages. Israel keeps no record of the number of black Bedouin as opposed to white; population figures go by ethnicity, hence all Bedouin are counted together. But a sizable community lives in their own neighborhoods in Rahat, one of seven recognized towns established in the late 1960s and early 1970s by the Israel government for certain Bedouin tribes. Less than 30 miles due north of Beersheva, modern-day Rahat is now a bustling city of more than 40,000 people -- the second largest Arab city after Nazareth in the north. Alia Al Kamalat, headmistress of the Omar bin Al-Khatab elementary school in Rahat, Israel But these people are not faring so well, and their hardships led a Jewish filmmaker to take a snapshot of life in Rahat, seen through the eyes of a handful of black Bedouin. Uri Rosenwaks, originally from Beersheva, came to teach a film class to a group of women amenable to the idea, and along the way, learned a lesson or two himself. For one, Rahat -- which means "collective" -- ranks as one of the poorest cities in Israel, with an unemployment rate of about 18 percent, twice the national average. Some 50 percent of Rahat's adult population and 60 percent of its children live below the poverty line. It boasts one of the largest birthrates in Israel, with especially low education and employment rates for women, and especially high dropout rates when it comes to boys and school. Statistics point to the blacks as having an even rougher time of it than the whites. Film Tries to Capture 'Truth' of Bedouin Life, in All Its Hues June 21, 2007 - Carin M. Smilk, Managing Editor
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Festival Cape Town Israeli Documentary Film Festival
Genre Documentaire
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